To Boldly Go Again Where No Man Has Gone Before

All the Star Trek sites are buzzing about the 11th Star Trek film coming out next year and how William Shatner is not in it. Leonard Nimoy will be playing older Spock while a new cast of actors are playing young Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew, who are embarking on their first mission together. The problem with having William Shatner in the film is that Captain Kirk was killed in the 8th film, Generations. How can we have an older Kirk in the new film without some explanation as to why he’s not dead? Since the Nexus Energy Ribbon only travels through our part of the galaxy every century or so, why not start out the movie with Spock leading an expedition of scientists into the Nexus? There they discover Captain Kirk alive, although some of the scientists are really there to use the nexus’ time travel power to return to the 23rd Century and kill Kirk in his youth. These so-called scientists are Romulan agents who hope to alter the timeline. Kirk and Spock follow them into the past where they meet up with their younger selves and warn them of the plot, which will reboot the entire Star Trek universe. Now I’m only using this plot because there are already rumors on the net that claim that Spock follows Romulans back in time to kill Kirk and Spock must find his younger self to warn him. Why not use the nexus for this, at the same time allowing The Shat to play older Kirk? Now I’m not happy about my entire Star Trek DVD Collection being reduced to a cancelled timeline, but surely Enterprise happened a significant amount of time before then, and the films as well as The Next Generation, DS9 and Voyager occurring a significant amount of time after this reboot. There may be minor changes but not enough to cancel out Starfleet’s future history.

I have loved Star Trek all of my life, and I’m almost 46 years old. I’m not crazy about new actors in these roles but if Trek is to survive, it has to be done. Trek has been done on TV just about every way feasible. Going back to its roots is a smart idea. There are some rumors suggesting the design of the Enterprise is being changed, but I’m pretty sure the Enterprise is the only aspect of the show that should not be changed, at least not much. How do you feel about it? 

iphone or gphone?

Right now THE phone to have is the iphone, apple’s brilliant device that’s as restrictive as it is innovative. Recently Apple put out an update that bricked/disables iphones that have been hacked or modified to allow a carrier other than AT&T to work on the phone. There were other hacks that allowed the iphone to have 3rd party apps installed on the phone. Both of these purposes are not approved by Apple, so when it put out update 1.1.1., that update turned their iphones into paperweights.

Now the Gphone premise is a bit more attractive. Imagine a cellphone packed with google-goodness, from a company that believes the cellphone spectrum should be available to its users for FREE, open to allow all kinds of 3rd party apps and to take full advantage of the growing mobile internet.

Which phone would you want?